The aim of the course is to provide students with knowledge and skills to understand the principles governing sport for people with disabilities. Also, the course aims to provide the necessary elements to understand the sector of adapted sports with reference to the national (also territorial) and international reality, and to provide students with knowledge and skills to improve the ability to relate to people with disabilities.

The course concerns the following themes:

• Disability: terminology and adapted sport / adapted physical activity
• The figure of the coach in adapted sport
• Classifications and assessments of the athlete with disabilities
• The Paralympic movement
• The Special Olympics movement
• Sport activities for people with physical disabilities
• Sport activities for people with sensory disabilities
• Sport activities for people with intellectual and relational disabilities 
• Sport and physical activity in mental health problems

At the end of the course the student should:

- Knowledge and understanding: know the principles governing sport for people with disabilities.

- Applying knowledge and understanding: apply general knowledge regarding adapted sports to specific disabilities.

- Making judgments: be able to recognize how to adapt sport and physical activity to people with disability.

- Communication skills: communicate and present with technical and specific terminology referred to the field of adapted sport

- Learning skills: be able to retrieve information with autonomy and from scientific sources.

The teaching material prepared by the lecturer in addition to recommended textbooks (such as for instance slides, lecture notes, exercises, bibliography) and communications from the lecturer specific to the course can be found inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it

Thematic seminars or lessons with "privileged experts".

Teaching

Frontal lessons, practical activities in the gym, or going out to sports centers for significant experiences, thematic seminars with "privileged experts".

Course books

The teaching material prepared by the lecturer in addition to recommended textbooks (such as for instance slides, lecture notes, exercises, bibliography) and communications from the lecturer specific to the course can be found inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it

It is suggested the book: Bertini L., Attività sportive adattate, Calzetti e Mariucci, Perugia 2005.

Assessment

The exam can be carried out in two different ways: the student will be asked to prepare an in-depth study on an adapted sports discipline, which will then be presented during the exam with the discussion of a short ppt or with the realization and brief critical discussion of a video-interview with a "privileged expert or athlete".

Disability and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD)

Students who have registered their disability certification or SLD certification with the Inclusion and Right to Study Office can request to use conceptual maps (for keywords) during exams.

To this end, it is necessary to send the maps, two weeks before the exam date, to the course instructor, who will verify their compliance with the university guidelines and may request modifications.